Pasta Palooza
Left: Handmade Pasta, Right: Chef Joe Placido. Photos by Trask Bedortha. For Joe Placido, owner of Placido’s Pasta Shop, cooking has always been a part of life. Continue reading
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Sushi Galaxy
David feldman and amelia mae kann of the sushi star brigade seek to fulfill their mission of love and silliness. “You are a stardazzle. I love you.” These are the words of initiation into the Sushi Star Brigade. Continue reading
Coming Home
Scallop Tiradito with chili vinaigrette, wood sorrel, cilantro, thai basil, ginger oil, sea salt, pea flowers, cucumber and radish Continue reading
The Garden of Beer
Caribeña chicken from Whapping food cart. Photo by Amy Schneider There’s a new beer garden in town, and it’s called — well, it’s called beergarden. Continue reading
Celestial Vibe
Vegan and gluten-free chocolate donuts. Alex Moon has worked in the restaurant industry for 20 years, but it only recently occurred to her that she could open up her own place. “It’s a relatively new idea for me,” she says. Continue reading
A League of Their Own
The Leroy Burger. Photo by Trask Bedortha. Last year, Food Network star Guy Fieri brought his show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives to Eugene. In the episode, Fieri stopped by popular Whiteaker food truck The Sandwich League. Continue reading
Word Is
* Want to grocery shop online? You can do it locally at Lane Local Foods, an online farmers market operated by the Willamette Farm and Food Coalition. Online shoppers can login at lanelocalfoods.com, or access it through the market’s mobile app, and order groceries any time from Wednesday morning to Sunday night. Farmers post their products and shoppers can choose what they want, anything from okra from Mountain View Farm in Junction City to feta cheese from Ferns’ Edge Goat Dairy in Lowell. Continue reading
Tyrannosaurus Wreck
A trillion monkeys typing for all eternity might eventually reproduce the complete works of William Shakespeare, but it wouldn’t take them five minutes to bang out a turd like Jurassic World — a flat hash of a movie that, at every furiously empty gesture, fails to scale even the most vulgar logical requirements of crass entertainment. Exhibit one: In the middle of a pterodactyl attack, as hundreds of people are getting viciously tossed around and torn apart, two star-crossed lovers stop to share a passionate kiss. Continue reading
Yellow Subs
U.K. Subs
Lauded purveyors of fierce and rebellious street punk, London’s U.K. Subs have released 24 albums and toured extensively over the past 40 years, showing no signs of slowing down, let alone stopping. Balancing just enough rough and tumble energy with choruses you want to shout along to and the occasional blistering solo, the Subs have crafted their own unique (but now thoroughly imitated) blend of punk, hardcore and “Oi!” — a subgenre of ’70s punk rock from the U.K. Continue reading
Witchy Woman
Globelamp: Elizabeth le Fey
Olympia-based, Southern California-born musician Elizabeth le Fey (aka Globelamp) loves The Beatles. “They have a lot of different parts in the music, like ‘A Day in the Life,’” le Fey tells EW. “I love that about The Beatles. It’s like you’re on a roller coaster.” Le Fey says The Beatles’ willingness to expand the traditional pop song formula is an influence on her sound, which she calls psychedelic folk. Continue reading